National Geographic’s Sally Ride documentary tells the story of America’s first woman in space and the love she kept secret for decades.

Astronaut and astrophysicist Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Read about her career, relationships, books, death, and more.

Sally Ride is remembered for her pioneering journey into space, but a new documentary reveals another dimension of the astronaut’s story. Ride’s life partner Tam O’Shaughnessy opens up about ...

Sally Ride is remembered for her pioneering journey into space, but a new documentary reveals another dimension of the astronaut’s story. Ride’s life partner Tam O’Shaughnessy opens up about their ...

Tam O’Shaughnessy came out as Sally Ride’s partner of twenty-seven years when she wrote of the relationship in Ride’s obituary.

During one of the countless, often boneheaded interviews Sally Ride endured about her pioneering role in the United States space program, she schools a reporter on how to address her. “It’s Dr ...

The new Sally Ride documentary "Sally" chronicles the astronaut's career, but gets into thorny territory when it conjectures about her personal life.

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space in 1983. Forty years later, NASA is preparing to send a woman to the moon for the first time.

Bear Ride speaks during a statue unveiling for her sister, Sally Ride, on the 4th of July Celebration at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Tuesday, July 4, 2023.

MELBOURNE, Fla. — Sally Ride shattered the glass ceiling on June 18, 1983, in dramatic fashion aboard NASA’s space shuttle Challenger to become the first American woman in space. Now on the 40th ...